Prof. Christine Vogt-William to join the Panel Discussion on Women in Africa, September 14, 2025

[Adebayo Ajadi]

Prof. Christine Vogt-William to join the Panel Discussion on Women in Africa, September 14, 2025

Christine Vogt-William is the Director of the Gender and Diversity Office with the Africa Multiple Cluster (funded by the German Research Council) at the University of Bayreuth. Originally from Singapore, Christine Vogt-William studied English, German and Psychology at the University of Essen, Germany. She completed her doctoral thesis at the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York, England as a Marie Curie Gender Graduate Fellow. She is the author of Bridges, Borders and Bodies: Transgressive Transculturality in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women’s Novels (2014) and is co-editor of Disturbing Bodies (2008), an essay collection on artistic and literary representations of “deviant” bodies. She has published on South Asian and African diasporic and mixed race literatures, queer and critical race approaches to Tolkien’s works, literary representations of transracial adoption and transnational surrogacy in postcolonial women’s writing. Professor Vogt-William was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Women’s Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 2008 to 2010. She has taught in the Postcolonial and North American Studies departments at the universities of Münster, Freiburg and Frankfurt am Main.

Please join us for a panel discussion with our distinguished panelists, Professors Abimbola A. Adelakun, Mary Owusu, Christine Vogt-William, Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi, Khushi Singh Rathore, Grace Ese-osa Idahosa, and Tinuade Ojo who will be sharing their expertise on "Women in Africa: Global Perspectives."

Sunday, September 14, 2025

11 AM Austin

5 PM Lagos & London

6 PM JoBurg & Berlin

 

Register Here:

https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/women-in-africa

 

Join via Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89368579896

 

Watch on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/@tfinterviews/live

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